Commonwealth v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista (2004), Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago (2009)
63 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Dennis v. Dennis · American Petrofina Co. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union Local No. 4-23 · Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Djefense counsel is entitled to pursue the failure of the police to record a defendant’s statements. Counsel may, for example, inquire of a testifying police officer ... whether he or she was aware of the availability of recorders to use during the questioning of suspects. Counsel may argue to a jury and to a judge as factfinder that the failure of the police to record electronically statements made in a place of custody should be considered in deciding the voluntariness of any statement, whether the defendant was properly advised of his rights, and whether any statement attributed to the defendant was made.” Commonwealth v. Diaz (1996), 422 Mass. 269 , 661 N.E.2d 1326, 1329 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.